Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Fedora 16 will reach end of life on 2013-02-12, and no further updateswill
be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recentrelease of
Fedora 18, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 16collection.

The Red Hat team has released the much awaited Fedora 18 Spherical Cow with Kernel 3.6.0It has got lots of changes fromprevious releases. This release will keep you more updated with cutting edge technology.Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues
to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six
months.. or so. But this time it got delayed and obviously all the enthusiast will be in a hope that this has to do more with the cutting edge technology and they are right. Spherical Cow, is of course, Fedora's best release yet. You'll go through the
hoof when you hear about the Grade A Prime F18 features.

The user interface for Fedora's installation software, Anaconda, has been
completely re-written from the ground up. Making its debut in Fedora 18, the new
UI introduces major improvements to the installation experience. It uses a
hub-and-spoke model that makes installation easier for new users, offering them
concise explanations about their choices. Advanced users and system
administrators are of course still able to take advantage of more complex
options. The general look and feel of the installation experience has been
vastly upgraded, providing modern, clean, and comprehensible visuals during the
process. While the new installer should work well for most users in most
configurations, there are inevitably a few teething problems in the first
release of such a major revision.

The upgrade process for Fedora now uses a new tool called FedUp (Fedora
Upgrader). FedUp replaces pre-upgrade as well as the DVD methods for upgrading
that have been used in previous Fedora releases. FedUp integrates with systemd
to enable the upgrade functionality, doing the work in a pristine boot
environment. You can upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18.